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From our Archive

  • Gordon Verhoef & Krause - Adverts over the years
  • She took no prisoners and let no grass grow beneath her feet - Franco Frescura pays tribute to Helen Aron
  • Dark tourism disaster and the terrible Laingsburg flood of 1981
  • South Africa's forgotten bioscopes
  • The Addington Children’s Hospital - A Durban Landmark
  • Houghton was nearly a Mining Township
  • Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
  • "A Great City Deserves Great Cathedrals"
  • A short history of one the Cape's earliest freehold farms
  • Dorkay House hangs on
  • Wupperthal - From Fire to Restoration
  • Questions on the origins of the name 'Witwatersrand'
  • The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
  • Looking back at the opening of Mapungubwe National Park
  • 80 Albert Street - The nerve centre for controlling black people's lives during the early stages of apartheid

From the Directory

  • South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
  • Tony Westby-Nunn
  • Williams Cultural Management (WCM)
  • Kommetjie Heritage Society
  • Pam McLaren - Female Ancestry British Kaffaria & Natal
  • Joint Plans Committee West
  • Ubique Heritage Consultants
  • Heritage Monitoring Project (HMP)
  • Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen - Paper Conservator
  • Van Plettenberg Historical Society
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